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OfflineSeussA
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Icelander's not a cartoon
    #15251427 - 10/20/11 09:58 AM (12 years, 3 months ago)

Icelander posted this in the Cartoon thread.  Unfortunately, if I let one text blob through, a million more will follow.  Rather than trash it completely, I am posting it here:

Quote:

Not exactly a cartoon but I think this is the right place for this.

> GREAT TRUTHS
>> 1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a> shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.
> - John Adams
>
> 2. If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the
> newspaper you are misinformed.
> - Mark Twain
>
> 3. Suppose you were an idiot.. And suppose you were a member of Congress.
> But then I repeat myself.
> - Mark Twain
>
> 4. I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like
> a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
> - Winston Churchill
>
> 5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the
> support of Paul.
> - George Bernard Shaw
>
> 6. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt
> he proposes to pay off with your money.
> - G. Gordon Liddy
>
> 7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on
> what to have for dinner.
> - James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
>
> 8. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in
> rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
> - Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University
>
> 9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys
> to teenage boys.
> - P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
>
> 10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to
> live at the expense of everybody else.
> - Frederic Bastiat, French economist(1801-1850)
>
> 11. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short
> phrases: If it moves, tax it.. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it
> stops moving, subsidize it.
> - Ronald Reagan (1986)
>
> 12. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
> - Will Rogers
>
> 13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it
> costs when it's free!
> - P.J. O'Rourke
>
> 14. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as
> possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
> - Voltaire (1764)
>
> 15. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean
> politics won't take an interest in you!
> - Pericles (430 B.C.)
>
> 16. No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in
> session.
> - Mark Twain (1866)
>
> 17. Talk is cheap...  except when Congress does it.
> - Anonymous
>
> 18. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite
> at one end and no responsibility at the other.
> - Ronald Reagan
>
> 19. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings.
> The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
> - Winston Churchill
>
> 20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the
> taxidermist leaves the skin.
> - Mark Twain
>
> 21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to
> fill the world with fools.
> - Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
>
> 22. There is no distinctly Native American criminal class... save Congress.
> - Mark Twain
>
> 23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
> - Ed ward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
>
> 24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong
> enough to take everything you have.
> - Thomas Jefferson
>
> 25. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
> - Aesop
>
>
> FIVE BEST SENTENCES
>
> 1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth
> out of prosperity.
>
> 2. What one person receives without working for...another person must work
> for without receiving.
>
> 3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does
> not first take from somebody else.
>
> 4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
>
> 5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work
> because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other
> half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is
> going to get what they worked for, that is the beginning of the end of any
> nation!
>




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Offlinezappaisgod
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Re: Icelander's not a cartoon [Re: Seuss]
    #15251458 - 10/20/11 10:11 AM (12 years, 3 months ago)

http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/wittiest-comebacks-of-all-time

My favorite:

Edward Koch:

"I can explain this to you;

I can't comprehend it for you."


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InvisibleIcelander
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Re: Icelander's not a cartoon [Re: Seuss]
    #15251474 - 10/20/11 10:17 AM (12 years, 3 months ago)

Hey thanks,  I appreciate the courtesy.


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
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Re: Icelander's not a cartoon [Re: zappaisgod]
    #15251503 - 10/20/11 10:29 AM (12 years, 3 months ago)

fun stuff.:thumbup:


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
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